Monthly Archives: September 2011

After reading one of my comments I of course felt a post coming on. This person I am about to respond to is just like all the others that made the very reason why I went on hiatus. Too much stupidity in one place is a dangerous thing. So, let’s just jump right in and get this party started, shall we?

My new friend Stephen Conklin asks: “First of all, what do black people not have in this country that white people do? You are showing your racism right there.”

Really, I am showing my racism by pointing out that there is disparity between races? This is a real question? Well I guess some people really are clueless. OK Stephen I’ll bite. How about we just list it out with reference so that you will be happy to have it backed up. But then you can’t really complain.

Wealth – The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009. (Boy, what is it now after this recession? Do you think it grew or shrank?)

I guess you really can’t argue with that one unless you are going to tell me that black people just don’t want wealth, so they go about trying to ensure they have none. Or there is a real system of inequality in this country. Hmmm?

Jobs – Blacks are unemployed right now at a rate of twice that of whites. Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for whites fell slightly to 8%, the Labor Department reported. Black unemployment has been roughly double that of whites since the government started tracking the figures in 1972

And I guess you are going to say that black people just don’t want to work. But somehow they want to complain about unemployment for blacks. Hmm, doesn’t make sense, because if we didn’t want to work, we would all be happy about the numbers of unemployed blacks versus whites and then ask why more aren’t unemployed. Or can we look at the study by Devah Pager which showed that black men with NO criminal record and a 4 year college degree got far less job offers than white men with a felony record. Stephen, how do we explain this? Is it *GASP* disparity? Is it something that white men have – the fallacy that they are somehow better than black men, even when they have a criminal record? OH MY, what exactly could this study be showing us? Who knows right?

But people such as you will deny that this has anything to do with racism, it is just a side effect of something else. Why don’t you enlighten us as to why black unemployment is always double white unemployment? Because if blacks have everything whites have and every opportunity whites have then we should have similar unemployment rates. So what is the problem here? Lazy blacks, illegal immigrants taking black jobs or maybe it is just another example of how blacks are the last hired and the first fired as most blacks in the workforce already know.

Home ownership – Home ownership rates for African Americans is 48% (compared to 75% for Whites) according to newly released U.S. Census data from 2009. (Boy, I wonder what those rates are since this recession. Stephen, they sure as hell didn’t get better after 2009, you think?)

Now why is this? It can’t be that blacks just decided, “Hey, we don’t want houses or a way to build wealth for our families.” In fact we don’t want houses or jobs. That’s it right Stephen? Or maybe the redlining, racist lending practices and last hired, first fired is making a showing in the housing market as well. But of course this doesn’t mean that white people have something black people don’t have. This just means that blacks don’t have stuff white people DO have. LOL.

Education – According to The Maynard Institute more than 25 years after Brown v. Board of Education integrated the public schools, schools remain segregated. Studies establish that segregation perpetuates racial inequality. Teachers assigned to minority schools are more likely to be inexperienced or teaching outside their fields of expertise. Schools serving minority communities receive less financing and fewer schools are constructed in minority communities. Black and brown children are disciplined more harshly and frequently for the same offenses as white children.

But of course this is because black children don’t want to learn right? Everything showing disparity between the races proving that whites DO have things blacks don’t, can always be summed up as just a byproduct of blacks lack of desire for these things. Not that the American system is inherently set up to create these disparities. You see Stephen after slavery was abolished, Jim Crow reared its ugly head, then after Jim Crow we now have a supposed underground system even if highly blatant disparity that people like you pretend not to see. Even though it is glaring in your face like the pretty lights blinking on any of the casinos littering the strip in Las Vegas.

But, please don’t let me open your eyes. Just continue to sleep and pretend that its all equal and all black people have to do is pull themselves up by these non existent boot straps and just have what whites have. Because we black people never contemplated doing that at all. In fact we just never thought of just having these things. Hey, I am going to go and tell all the blacks, “Just have exactly what whites have!” Now, we can just do it. Thanks Stephen, you really showed me and the rest of black America that it was in our hands the whole time and all we had to do was do it. That college degree holding black man can now say, I’ll get that job no matter what felony wielding white man comes in for the position too. I will just TAKE that job. Thanks, Stephen you opened up all of our eyes!

But back to the REAL world, WHY is it that I have to consistently implore you to do a little research before coming to my blog and talking crap? Second time you haven’t listened and again the second time you look like an idiot. And yes, I called you a name. It is how we label someone when they are behaving in a manner that calls for their behavior to be explained to many people.

If you feel that my calling you what you come here and showing me you must be, then by all means don’t come here. I didn’t come to you and call you a name, you came here and acted in a fashion that warranted a name. If it talks like a moron, writes like a moron and thinks like a moron, then the chances are overwhelming that it IS a moron. Sorry.

Good luck next time. But, again, do some research before bringing your tripe. I don’t like stupidity for the sake of stupidity. Oh, and I will answer the rest of your tripe in due time.

Waaahhh, I only have 400 thousand dollars left over after feeding my family! Is what Tea Party congressman John Fleming’s cried on Jansing & Co. this morning about Obama’s plan to tax the wealthy as much as the middle class. Can this idiot be for real?

We have people and a lot of them in this country as well as in the Tea Party who have to “get along” with more like 40 thousand dollars or less a year and he is crying over 400 thousand. That just pisses me off to the core. This is the selfish bullshit that we are dealing with in some of the worst economic times ever.

Not only is this Tea Party sucker bitching and moaning about paying more taxes, but he and his cohorts are also saying that we need to cut spending on programs for the poor as well as “raise” taxes on those same poor folks. Because lord knows those poor suckers who after feeding their families are left with a good 200 dollars for the year as income should be forking out at least a hundred and fifty of that to pay down the deficit consisting mainly of tax cuts for John Fleming and those like his selfish ass.

Poor John Fleming sitting there in his million dollars or better home with his family just trying to survive and here we are trying to create class warfare with his kind by taking more of those 400 thousand dollar crumbs of his is after his businesses brought in 6.3 million dollars for the year. I guess when he said 400 thousand; he totally forgot the 173 thousand a year he also gets by being a congressman. But, why split hairs, we know he is just on the cusp of the poor house; and with that kind of money coming in every year, who can remember it all.

The class warfare is that the Republican and Tea Party believes that not only do the rich need to pay less into the society that is putting the money in their pockets, but somehow the poor should be paying more to ensure that they have the means to pay less. How sick is that? This has been a long time coming and people better start looking at the writing on the wall before it’s too late.

Even Jansing told the idiot that he position to the majority of America isn’t very sympathetic. He could care less because his answer was the “class warfare never created one job.” But, you know what Mr. Fleming, a tax cut for a selfish wealthy bastard never created one job either. In fact the years that we had all these tax cuts for the rich, the only thing that happened was that we started losing jobs faster than ever.

Because what Fleming doesn’t understand is that he has the whole economic structure backwards. He believes that those at the top or company owners create jobs when in fact it is those at the bottom who create jobs. It probably sounds nuts but hear me out. If I open a lemonade stand, I have to have a demand for my lemonade from the thirsty people looking for a good deal on a cold drink on a hot day.

Neither Mr. Fleming nor his cohorts are cruising the streets looking for lemonade as these people only make up one percent of the population anyway. It is the hard working people that are my customers. And any kid with a paper route, lemonade stand or girl scout selling cookies understands that you aren’t going to do any business if you have no customers or your customers have no money to spend.

Mr. Flemings owns a lot of Subway sandwich shops and he isn’t going to tell me that somehow if he has lower taxes and the poor have higher taxes he is going to do some brisk business. In fact we all know that he will do very poorly. If the people have no money or less money frivolous spending at sub shops will decline. Those moneyless people will be better off buying a loaf of bread and a package of baloney at the super market for the price of one sub sandwich. So, who is fooling who here?

But, you see it doesn’t just stop there. He and his cohorts want to cut all government programs so that those poor folks won’t even get food stamps to buy their bread and baloney. But, unfortunately for Mr. Fleming, they won’t have money for food, but they damn sure won’t have money for his stupid submarine sandwich.

I guess we’ll see his stupid face in the soup kitchen line right along with the rest of us. You can’t build a business with moneyless customers. And if your customers have no money, you my friend will eventually have no money either.

I just have to speak up on this atrocity that is being thrust upon me by these people who are running for the top slot on the Republican ticket. Can anyone anywhere tell me why I or any other minority would vote for any of these, these “people”? And I use the term people very lightly, as the old black sentinel would just call them idiots and be done with it. But, I want to save that for later. Not just pointing out that they are all raging mouth foaming idiots right away. I also really want to try and understand what they have to offer.

I watched the debate like any open minded voter who wishes to ensure that there isn’t something better than the current Loser in chief. I am interested in alternatives, but damn. These people don’t give you anything to work with. I wanted to pull my hair out as it felt like my ears were bleeding listening to this nonsensical drivel that seems to spurt from their mouths like the fountain out in front of the Bellagio in Vegas, but, not at all as pleasing and definitely nowhere near as entertaining.

It’s as if these people fell out of Palin’s ass or something. She is stupid and they are flaming stupid. So, now that you know how I feel about the candidates, let’s begin to break down the talking points for you and how these are why I can’t vote for any of them, thus FORCING me to say Obama will more than likely get my vote. No matter how much that last statement gets my goat it just has to be that way.

From Ponzi schemes, two dollar gasoline, no mandates and everything in between is what was discussed in this debate. Where do these people come from, is what I want to know. And not in the literal sense as I know they hail from different states but, where do they come up with these ideas and do they honestly believe them. I just can’t fathom that Michelle Bachmann believes she can somehow without government “mandated” pricing bring gas down under two dollars a gallon. Give me a break already. Is this a chicken in every pot statement or what?

Anyhow, Michelle Bachmann says she can get gas prices down below two dollars a gallon. Ok, I’ll bite. Anyone with simple knowledge of this so called free market understands that is a joke. She thinks that drilling here at home will somehow reduce the gas prices here at home. Oooookaaaay, right. I guess she doesn’t understand that the open markets dictate the price. Or maybe she is saying she is going to mandate or dictate prices for gas at home. Wait everyone on the stage was against mandates.

Ok, so we should all understand by now that you can’t as president just say gas should be… and it magically happens. This isn’t a Lucky Charms commercial here. Gas prices are dictated by the open market like corn, wheat and everything else. Even if you found oil in your backyard, it goes on the open market and as consumption rises so do prices. India and China are coming on strong for that oil. So, thus prices rise. And even if we somehow flood the market as Canada plans to do with our new pumped oil, OPEC still has a hand in setting the price. And unless Bachmann plans to overtake OPEC, she aint’ dictating any prices to them. And any oil she drills out of the Everglades ain’t going straight to any gas pumps in the U.S. So, let’s call that one bullshit and move along.

Everyone hates a mandate and plans to throw out Obamacare asap. For Romney this is just trash talk. He is basically saying, it’s good for my people in Massachusetts but not for others. He even said that Obamacare was trying to cover 100% of the people where he only covered 80%. So, some people have to fall through the cracks to make it Ok? Anyhow, Obamacare didn’t go far enough; let’s just throw that out there. So, we have all these people saying that the government shouldn’t force people to buy insurance. Yet, it was OK, for the government to tell us we HAD to buy car insurance and homeowners insurance. Give me a break.

Why is any of that OK, just not health insurance? And don’t tell me it is state instead of Federal, as being forced to do something, doesn’t make one iota of difference how you are forced or by whom. It is making me spend money anyway and probably a good thing as well. As if I hit someone’s car, I am sure glad I have insurance. Just the way I would be glad to have insurance if I have a broken leg. But, these idiots won’t or can’t see any of this or maybe they just pretend not to.

Everyone on the stage is hell bent on trickle-down economics. We see that crap never worked. It didn’t work under Reagan; it didn’t work under George Sr. and sure as hell didn’t work under G.W. So, exactly why is it that these fools are advocating doing exactly what we did to get where we are now? Can anyone say insanity? Just like Einstein said, Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. But isn’t that what conservatism is? Conservatism is the preservation of traditions. Progressive is change.

Change doesn’t happen all at once nor does it happen without any problems. I am not saying that Obama brought about the changes we need nor did he do it without problems. He is inept to me but that is another story. We don’t need to go back to the traditions of the conservative party. They have nothing new to show us. It’s the same old, I tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas, again. This is a shame. The more I watch these people the more I understand that some people don’t want anything to ever change. Let’s stagnate like standing water in a bucket. Get all full of muck, stink and filth.

Let’s flow or go with the flow and change. Just because we have an idiot in office doesn’t mean we can’t help him to fix what is broken, not go back to the old broken because the new item isn’t quite working right. That doesn’t make sense. My new car has a funny smell, so let’s get into the old car with the busted engine. Not smart. The conservatives/tea party whoever these people fancy themselves are obstructionists sitting around saying let’s ensure no one can do anything different, and then point out how nothing is working. Really smart strategy, NOT. So again, why would I vote for any of these people?